Friday, January 16, 2015

A quick observation about The Chamber of the Secrets

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Hello, friends! I’m onto The Chamber of Secrets in my latest reading of the Harry Potter series, and I’ve noticed something interesting in ...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

First mainstream appearance of tengwar outside Tolkien?

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A few months ago, I wrote about the history of the hobbit/habit pun ( read the post ). During the course of that discussion, I referred to...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Return to Hogwarts … again

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I’m opening 2015 by reading the Harry Potter series again. For about the tenth time (I can’t be certain, as I didn’t start scrupulously trac...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

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With the ink almost dry, the time has come to share the news of a new collection on the Inklings that I co-edited with my colleagues Salw...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Jonah and the Colocynth

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After more than five years of (recent) anticipation, which might easily have stretched on indefinitely, Tolkien’s translation of Jonah has...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Forgotten habits

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In a recent post about puns on “hobbit”, I wrote: The first usage to come close to this is the exchange of letters to the editor of The ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tolkien Studies delayed

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The world of academic publishing sometimes moves at about the same speed as the earth’s tectonic plates. At the risk of stating the obvious,...
Friday, September 5, 2014

The surprising longevity of one Tolkien essay — and a new Tolkien collection

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Almost a year ago, out of the blue, I got a request to reprint one of my essays on Tolkien in a Gale reference collection I was told was b...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Bad puns can be hobbit-forming

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In a recent post to the Mythopoeic Society’s email listserv, John Rateliff shared an early reference to Tolkien in Robert Heinlein. John w...
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